As is the case following many mass shootings, far-right social media networks are already percolating with posts glorifying the mass killer in Nova Scotia who killed at least 22 people in a shooting rampage over the weekend. Neither police nor media have linked the shooter to any organization or political belief system at this point, but that has not stopped far-right supporters from co-opting the deadly shooting.

While some online extremists have floated the idea the shooter, 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, was an agent provocateur performing a false flag attack on behalf of the government or yet another character in the outlandish QAnon conspiracy, propaganda celebrating the shooter as a domestic terrorist success story has also appeared online.

One well known neo-Nazi propaganda account known for its connections to extremist organizations and to ‘accelerationism’—a hyper violent political doctrine seeking to hasten the collapse of society through terrorist acts—released a stylized image of Wortman comparing him to Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber whose infamous attack occured 25 years ago to the day on Sunday.

“Picking up where Timothy left off,” reads the image which shows Wortman’s face beside the bombed out Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, the location of McVeigh’s terrorist attack that killed 168 people in 1995.

Another acclerationist neo-Nazi group linked to the war in Ukraine, posted a photo of Wortman feeding a bear from his Facebook account with the caption, “Love animals, hate modern society!” The group calls for mass killings and openly denigrates multicultural societies.